Disclaimer: Nothing here is ours, except for Benji.

Rating: PG 13 for a couple swear words.

Pairing: A little B/A.

Timeline: Right before Buffy leaves for college, beginning of season 4.

Author's Note: This is based on a wonderfully insane little roleplay done by three members of the Simply Buffy Guild. Here is the original cast penname in parentheses):

Erin (buffygirl52789): Dawn and Joyce

Kitty (Sanity Fair): Benji and Angel

Amanda (lilsoccercutie55): Buffy

This fic will be continued as we proceed with the rp! We would appreciate feedback!

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"Buffy, you're leaving for college tomorrow and I don't want you to leave things on a bad note! Please apologize to your sister," Joyce said sternly.

"She needs to apologize too," Buffy insisted. By this point she could barely remember what they had been fighting about. Just another night in the Summer's house.

"Fine, I'm sorry," Dawn said with a dramatic sigh.

Buffy couldn't help but crack a smile. "I'm sorry too." She reached out and gave her sister a hug. "But that doesn't mean I'll miss you."

"Buffy!" Joyce gasped.

"I'm only kidding!" Buffy pulled back to look at her sister. "Tell you what, you can sleep in my bed with me tonight if you want."

Dawn smiled a little. "Okay. Just let me get my stuff." She headed down the hall to her room.

Joyce gave her older daughter a hug. "It's going to be so strange not having you around the house," she sighed.

"I won't be far," Buffy reminded her.

Dawn came back down the hall, dressed in pajamas and holding a small white teddy bear. "I'm going to bed."

"I'm coming too," Buffy said, giving her mom a kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you in the morning."

"Good night girls," Joyce said before retiring to her own room.

Buffy changed into her own pajamas and climbed into the bed with Dawn. "Good night Dawnie."

"Night Buffy," Dawn said, already curled up with her bear.

Buffy rolled over and soon fell asleep. She rested peacefully for a while before the dream began.

Vampires. Vampires everywhere, surrounding her. She wasn't tied down in any way, but she was glued to the spot and could not move, couldn't defend herself. She screamed.

Dawn awoke with a start as her sister moaned next to her. "Buffy?" she hesitantly placed a hand on her shoulder, and fell back in shock when her sister flung out an arm, hitting Dawn. "Ow, Buffy that hurt!" Mumbling something incoherent, Buffy rolled over violently, knocking Dawn off the bed. She hit the floor with a hard thud. "Okay, that's it!" she said loudly. She ran around the other side of the bed and shook Buffy. Her sister began to scream loudly, wrapped up in the dream where vampires were torturing her. Dawn shook her harder, calling her name, but her sister would not wake up.

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Benji, the old teddy bear with the missing eye was sitting on top of Dawn's bed, and he was mad. Why did she always choose the nicer stuffed animals to be her bed buddy. Why, Why? And so he sat, plotting evil.

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"Buffy?" Dawn asked in alarm as she screamed. "It's just me! Wake up!" Buffy let a fist fly thinking it was a vampire, instead it was Dawn's face. This caused it to make a loud cracking noise. Dawn gasped as she felt her nose break.

Joyce got up when she heard the scream. "Buffy? Dawn? What happened?" she asked frantically, rushing into the bedroom.

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Something very peculiar was happening to Benji, however. It seemed that on a full moon in the middle of winter when two sisters fought teddy bears would have a picnic. And come to life...

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Buffy stood up still dreaming, she started kicking Dawn, and her fist flying out at her. Dawn started to cry, holding her nose and trying to crawl away.

"BUFFY!" Joyce yelled. "Buffy, wake up!"

Buffy grabbed a hold of Dawn's hair, and yanked her back, shouting. "You son of a bitch, leave me alone!" she cried out at Dawn, still thinking she was a vampire.

"OW!" Dawn screeched, sobbing loudly now. "Buffy, please!" She managed to tear herself away, running for the hallway.

Buffy fell on the floor again, gasping for breath.

Joyce rushed to her older daughter's side. "Buffy? Buffy can you hear me?"

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Benji hopped out of the closet where that wicked girl, Dawn, had tossed him and shook his furry body off. He then made his way down the hallway.

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Buffy started to convulse, her body shaking terribly, and blood running from her ears and nose.

Frantic, Joyce ran to the bedside table where there was a bottle of water. She splashed it on Buffy, hoping to wake her up.

The water made Buffy shake even more, until she finally fell into a deep sleep.

Dawn sat in the hallway, curled up against the wall. The hand she held over her nose had blood on it, and her hair really hurt where Buffy had pulled it.

"Buffy?" Joyce said as her daughter fell still. She reached out and shook her with no response. "Buffy?"

Benji made his way into Buffy's room where he saw quite a scene. Very interesting, he thought, his only black button eye focused on the small white teddy Dawn had been sleeping with. He narrowed his one eye and walked further.

Dawn was so busy thinking about the pain that she didn't see her old teddy bear walk into her sister's room as if he was alive.

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Buffy looked around, it was quiet where she was. The sun shone above her, while butterflies and birds sung their songs. She smiled. Everything seemed so perfect here. In the distance she saw a man, he looked strangely familiar. She realized then it was Angel.

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So this is the little prick that has replaced me, a stupid small teddy, Benji thought. This only made him angrier.

Giving up on Buffy, Joyce rushed to her other daughter. "Dawnie. Oh God, you're bleeding.

Dawnie, Buffy's not waking up. We need to do something."
"Call the hospital?" Dawn suggested wearily. She tried to pinch her nose to stop the bleeding, but cried out when a sharp pain shot though her. "I think my nose is broken," she cried.

Benji made his way up to the night stand and began to shimmy up the side, hellbent on teaching Dawn a lesson.

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Buffy walked over to him, and embraced him in a hug.

"I've been waiting for you," Angel said wrapping his arms around her. "So very long."

"Where are we Angel, where is my family? And why are you here?" Buffy was so confused, but so happy at the same time.

"We're exactly we need to be," Angel said, "It's our destiny. Your family can't come and I'm here because this is where I belong. We're where all of the fighters go."
"Angel, am I dead?" she asked quietly, fearing the answer that awaited her.
"That's one way of looking at it," He said shrugging, "But, I prefer to say that we're moving on."

"Where are we Angel, where is my family? And why are you here?" Buffy was so confused, but so happy at the same time.

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"Okay. Let me call 911," Joyce said, trying to remain calm. She turned around to reenter the room.

Benji fell into an open drawer and cursed, but then he noticed someone had placed a pair of scissors in the drawer. This made Benji very happy. He grabbed them and continued up.

Joyce reentered the room and started to head for the phone when she heard a faint noise coming from the other side of the bed. She turned around and screamed as she saw a teddy bear climb up onto the bed, holding a pair of scissors.

"Mom, what is it," Dawn said, struggling to her feet and rushing back into the room. She screamed too when she saw the malicious eye gleaming back at her while the scissors gleamed.

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"Moving on to what, as far as I'm concerned I'm not ready to move on. I want to be with my family Angel, this place just doesn't seem right. Not without all my family and friends here with me. Who will protect them, or the world?" Buffy asked.

"You did what you were chosen to do," Angel said taking her hands in his. "You have fought long enough. There will be another to take over."

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Benji looked over and screamed as well. He didn't remember humans being this big before. Maybe it was because of all the years he had been the closet thanks to that wicked girl. But no matter what he was on a mission and so he continued.
Joyce felt as if she might have a heart attack. "Dawnie, what is he doing?" she cried.
Dawn looked at him sideways. He looked vaguely familiar...she remembered! "Benji?" she gasped.

Benji opened his mouth not sure if they could understand him or not. "Of course it's me! You threw me out Dawn, I was your sweet Benji, the one you practiced "slayer" with." He motioned to his missing eye. "But, I'm back," he said walking after her, "Back for forever, just like you wanted. We can finally be happy."
Dawn's eyes widened as he spoke. "Benji, why do you have scissors?"

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"You left me Angel, and now you think I'm going to just forgive you, and take you back as if you never broke my heart. That isn't going to happen." Buffy walked away, not really knowing where to go. "What I wanted was for you to never leave me. What I wanted was for you to have no doubt about us. I never got that though, and maybe I don't want it anymore," she said now running away from him.

Angel stared and said something very strange, "You will never leave me. You can never leave me."

Buffy was taken back by Angel appearing before her. She pushed him and shouted. "I will leave you, just like you left me! Over and over again!"

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"To knit you a sweater with," he said sarcastically and shouted, "To kill you with!"
Dawn felt very scared. She grabbed her mother's arm and ran downstairs. "Mom, what the hell is going on?"
"I don't know baby. But Buffy is still unconscious up there, with that...that thing!" she cried.
Dawn's eyes widened. She had forgotten that her sister was still up there. "Oh no. But he wants me, he wouldn't hurt Buffy, right?"

"You told me you loved me," Benji shouted, doing his best to climb off the bed, then falling off with a loud thump. His little legs scampered after them. "You are a liar! You are a liar and now you have to pay."

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"And so it goes.." Angel said sadly, "Over and over again."

"You aren't Angel, you are a teddy bear," she shouted as the once Angel turned into a cute teddy bear with green glowing evil eyes!

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Dawn shrieked as she heard him following them. She grabbed Joyce and ran to the kitchen.
"The back door," Joyce cried, running to it.
"Mom, hurry," Dawn moaned, hearing Benji's little footsteps growing closer.
Benji laughed. "All I wanted was for you to love me, Dawnie, but you chose the younger cuter toys instead. "
"No, Benji, I do love you! You can be my best friend again! But please, just put down the scissors," she begged. Joyce struggled with the back door, but it was jammed.
"More lies," he said hoisting the scissors up. "What about my eye Dawn. You said you would get me a new one."
"And I will! I promise I will, just please, don't hurt us," she begged.

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